Of two evils choose the least.
Of two evils choose the least.
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Of two evils choose the least.
Let not your mousetrap smell of blood.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
Don't reckon your chickens before they are hatched.
All is not at hand that helps.
If one's name be up he may lie in bed.
Hopers go to hell.
Where there's a will there's a way.
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
There goes reason to the roasting of eggs.
Misers' money goes twice to market.
When Tom's pitcher is broken I shall get the sherds.
A snow year, a rich year.
Bray a fool in a mortar, he'll be never the wiser.
As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.
If I canna do it by might I'll do it by slight.
He rode sicker [sure] that ne'er fell.
Hope holds up the head.
No pains, no gains.
Our worst misfortunes are those that never befall us.
It is an ill wind that blows no good to Cornwall.
One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge.
Spare to speak and spare to speed.
He is my friend who grinds at my mill.